Dear Mother, Dear Daugther — Victoire Donneger

Dear Mother,
Dear Daughter,
2024-25

01-Images

Credits: Anwyn Hownart

02-Description

Dear Mother, Dear Daughter is an ongoing installation that invites mothers and daughters to meet through writing rather than speech. At its centre, a low engraved table poses a single question: “In your relationship, what would you like to see change?” In silence, each woman writes a letter to the other. The letters are exchanged, read, and placed in an urn.

From these letters, I create large, hand-quilted textile flags — translating private emotions into shared, material forms. The project emerged from my own experience of distance and reconciliation with my mother. What began as a personal search for a safe space of dialogue has evolved into a collective process of care and repair.

Writing becomes a gesture of resistance: a slower, more intimate way to confront the unspoken. Embroidery, engraving, and sewing turn emotional labour into tactile language. Through accumulation — of letters, fabrics, and voices — the installation grows into a living archive of intergenerational connection.

Dear Mother, Dear Daughter reflects on what happens when language fails — and how, even in silence, women continue to find ways to speak to one another.

03- Exhibition / Press

- DUTCH DESIGN WEEK, Eindhoven,
Exhibiting Artist,
Dear Mother, Dear Daugther,
2025

-Nieuwe designtalenten om je op te verheugen,
Het Financieele Dagblad, Michou Basu, October 2025

-Dutch Dresign Week / De jonge honden van de Graduation Show, Eidnhoven Dagblad, Anneke van Wolfswinkel, October 2025

-Five Highlights from Dutch Design Week 2025 – Past. Present. Possible, Tangerine London, Leonie Tenthof van Noorden November 2025

Open to exhibitions and collaborations.